Bible Verses about βjubileeβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about jubilee across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.β
βTake thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.β
βAnd ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.β
βΒΆ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.β
βThou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.β
βΒΆ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.β
βBoth thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.β
βMoreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.β
βAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.β
βThen shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.β
βAnd if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:β
βA jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.β
βFor it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.β
βAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.β
βIn the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.β
βI [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.β
βΒΆ And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:β
βAccording to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:β
βAccording to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.β
βYe shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.β
βWherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.β
βAnd the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.β
βAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:β
βThen I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.β
βAnd ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].β
βIf thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.β
βAnd if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;β
βThen let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.β
βBut if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.β
βAnd if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; [within] a full year may he redeem it.β
βAnd if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.β
βBut the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.β
βNotwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.β
βAnd if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel.β
βBut the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.β
β[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:β
βAnd [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.β
βFor they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.β
βThou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.β
βAnd if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:β
βAfter that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:β
βEither his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.β
βAnd he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.β
βIf [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.β
βAnd if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.β
β[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.β
βAnd if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his children with him.β
βFor unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.β
βSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.β
βSix years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;β
